ACCT (Accounting Facility) › Activating the Accounting Facility

Activating the Accounting Facility

To activate the Accounting Facility, perform the following steps:

1. Define the accounting database to CA Datacom/DB. (The CA Datacom/DB User Requirements Table must be defined to use the Multi-User Facility.) See the CA Datacom/DB Database and System Administration Guide for details.
2. Use the ACCT EDIT option to verify that the definition is accepted by the Accounting Facility. See ACCT EDIT (Edit Accounting Database Definitions) for details.
3. CATALOG the accounting database. See the CA Datacom Datadictionary User Guide for details.
4. Use the INIT function of DBUTLTY to initialize the accounting database's data and Index Areas. See INIT Data Area (Format Data Area). and INIT IXX (Format Index Area) for details.
5. Use the LOAD function of DBUTLTY to null load each of the data areas in the accounting database. See LOAD (Build a Data Area) for details.
6. Change your Multi-User startup options to include the necessary Accounting Facility parameters. See the CA Datacom/DB Database and System Administration Guide for details.
7. Use the ACCT CATALOG option to build the accounting database definitions in the PRM table. See ACCT CATALOG (Catalog Accounting Database) for details.
8. Reinitialize the Multi-User Facility to activate accounting. See the CA Datacom/DB Database and System Administration Guide for details.

The following sections describe each of the operations that you can perform with the ACCT function.